The launch of DALL-E took the world by storm even though artists didn’t appreciate it much. Since then GenAI science has brought to fore a slew of startups like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, which have democratised art by generating supreme qualit...
If there was one thing that computers couldn’t match — it was human creativity and artistic talent — until 2021, when OpenAI first revealed its text-to-image generation AI model DALL-E. The launch of DALL-E took the world by storm even though artists didn’t appreciate it much. Since then GenAI science has brought to fore a slew of startups like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, which have democratised art by generating supreme quality images with just a few words. Besides, AI image models are disrupting microstock monopolies like Shutterstock. AI-generated images and prompt catalogs are selling at $1-$4 for uses such as wall paintings, advertising, T-shirt prints, logos, patterns and stickers. ET curates a list of startups who are battling IP infringement litigations, but continue to innovate.
